Sentence examples for emergency freeze from inspiring English sources

Hoping to move more quickly on some protections, Senator Schumer and Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, asked the Fed on Thursday to impose an immediate emergency freeze on interest rates of existing card balances.

In the first major speech of his GOP presidential campaign, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty promised an emergency freeze on spending, including significant cuts to the federal environmental watchdog.

Says Former Marine Defrauded Military Personnel  |  The Securities and Exchange Commission said it had obtained an emergency asset freeze to halt a scheme by a former Marine who posed as a successful hedge fund trader, Reuters reports.

The agency had sought an emergency asset freeze order, it said, to prevent the defendants from moving millions of dollars in potentially ill-gotten gains offshore.

The governing council of the ECB decided to freeze emergency liquidity assistance to the Greek banks, the lifeline that is keeping the national financial system functioning.

The surprise judgment has delighted many in Reykjavik, some of whom still blame Britain for precipitating a flight of capital in 2008 after the UK used emergency powers to freeze the assets of Landsbanki, the bank behind Icesave.

The fear behind that thought deepened when someone pulled the emergency brake cord, freezing the train between Rockefeller Center and the Seventh Avenue station.

Hurricane Sandy is just the latest in a barrage of unsettling events (tsunamis, earthquakes, droughts, worldwide economic crises, Arab unrest) fueling sales of so-called emergency food, typically freeze-dried and vacuum-packed with a 30-year shelf life.

Instead, they control emergency stop systems, which freeze Totemobile's movement if a spectator somehow gets too close to it.

The S.E.C.'s release states that it obtained "an emergency court order to freeze assets in a Zurich, Switzerland-based trading account".

In September, the agency obtained an emergency court order to freeze the assets of a Brazilian man suspected of insider trading around 3G Capital's takeover of Burger King.